Example sentences of "set [det] " in BNC.

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1 The consequences of failure there wo would certainly ha have meant her removal from office erm however she did calculate erm that within the limits she set that success would be , wo wo would in fact be the result , and it was .
2 You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think .
3 To move on , within this set some industries will be sustainable , some will not be .
4 But erm we set some traps then .
5 God set this Iain Og on the hot hob of hell for a thousand years — but not before I catch him ! ’
6 Here is an example of an objective set this way .
7 Twelve others have in effect set this limit by ratifying the International Covenant or the American Convention .
8 And if we set this on five .
9 Another new record set this summer was 1,796 rolls in two hours by Randy Fine of Miami in June .
10 And the power which set this realization in motion is the Holy Spirit .
11 Erm and the reason we set this is that we are erm er the er , er we believe that this above average er growth in the in the , erm , er , earnings per share of the company is what shareh increases in shareholder value really depend on and er again to give an example erm , if you take the , the , the , the , the , the F T S E a hundred companies erm , and you do analyses of their er , growth rates and earnings per share you will find that the average growth rate was eleven and a half percent and ours er , was er , twenty , twenty percent so it 's above average remuneration erm , er , er , for above av for above average performance .
12 THE LAST week of the campaign began strangely — like a pas sage from Alice in Wonderland : the Prime Minister on his soapbox one minute , in a space-age film set another .
13 HOUSTON — BPX set another new Gulf of Mexico record for a horizontal well on the Amberjack Project .
14 Lucerne , on which Young set such high hopes , could only be grown on deep soils or on irrigated land , and there it was to produce a minor revolution . ’
15 John Merritt , a young reporter then on the Mirror , by whom Pilger set much store , was particularly difficult to pin down .
16 Many people set much store by total privacy when they are ill .
17 Oh the funniest part about it was when he set these people 's thing .
18 She set all the animals out in a long line , headed by the lions ; a circus parade carved from wood and delicately coloured .
19 While the normal alphanumeric codes closely follow the standard ASCII set all the control codes , pre-defined graphics and BASIC tokens must be intercepted .
20 Oh right erm to be honest I do n't , the guy who set all that up has moved company , I 'm just taking over the , the care of them really , unless erm Mr said anything , erm erm , yes if you would , er just hang on a minute , erm he 's got someone in
21 She set many long distance records over the next few years , culminating in the England to Capetown and return record in 1936 in the Percival New Gull .
22 It was the defence of this social unit that set many of the boundaries to the debates and limited the eventual legislative reform .
23 Then , usually , he set more puffball to smoke in underneath , to kill off all the bees , and they would move on to the next hive .
24 A sick man who values a hi-fi set more than a bottle of medicine that will cure him needs to be made aware of the values involved .
25 I have played parts of this set several times over , long into the night … ( )
26 Although Dicken 's Barnaby Rudge was a historical novel , set several decades before the period in which it was written , few modern readers are capable of distinguishing it from the author 's non-period writings .
27 I do not think that Edwin set any great value on other people 's opinions . ’
28 Finally , set both carriages to knit and using tension 2 , knit the rib .
29 He set both hands before him on the crucifix .
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